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Volume 84, issue 5 , 1994
The Economic Consequences of Unwed Motherhood: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment pp. 1141-56
Stephen G. Bronars and Jeffrey T. Grogger
Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins pp. 1157-73
Orley Ashenfelter and Alan B. Krueger
Beauty and the Labor Market pp. 1174-94
Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff E. Biddle
Parental and Public Transfers to Young Women and Their Children pp. 1195-1212
Mark R. Rosenzweig and Kenneth Wolpin
Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes pp. 1213-32
Zvi Griliches and Iain M. Cockburn
IRAs and Household Saving pp. 1233-60
William G Gale and John Karl Scholz
Careers in Ongoing Hierarchies pp. 1261-77
Dominique Demougin and Aloysius Siow
A Solution to the Problem of Externalities When Agents Are Well-Informed pp. 1278-93
Hal Ronald Varian
Domestic Politics and International Conflict pp. 1294-1309
Michelle R Garfinkel
Risk-Taking, Global Diversification, and Growth pp. 1310-29
Maurice Obstfeld
Benefits of Narrow Business Strategies pp. 1330-49
Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner
The Cleansing Effect of Recessions pp. 1350-68
Ricardo J. Caballero and Mohamad L Hammour
A Unified Model of Investment under Uncertainty pp. 1369-84
Andrew Abel and Janice Eberly
The Consequences of Price Instability on Search Markets: Toward Understanding the Effects of Inflation pp. 1385-96
Mariano Tommasi
Does Consumer Sentiment Forecast Household Spending? If So, Why? pp. 1397-1408
Christopher Carroll , Jeffrey C. Fuhrer and David W. Wilcox
Does World Investment Demand Determine U.S. Exports? pp. 1409-22
Andrew M. Warner
Differences in Relative Prices and International Differences in Growth Rates pp. 1423-36
Daniel A Nuxoll
Price Discrimination through a Distribution Channel: Theory and Evidence pp. 1437-45
Eitan Gerstner , James D Hess and Duncan M Holthausen
Why Have All the Women Gone? A Study of Exit of Women from the Science and Engineering Professions pp. 1446-62
Anne E Preston
Earnings Uncertainty and Aggregate Wealth Accumulation: Comment pp. 1463-69
Ian Irvine and Susheng Wang
Long-Run Neutrality and Superneutrality in an ARIMA Framework: Comment pp. 1470-73
John F Boschen and Christopher Otrok
Domestic Politics, Foreign Interests, and International Trade Policy: Comment pp. 1474-75
Tracy Hofer and Christopher Woodruff
Domestic Politics, Foreign Interests,, and International Trade Policy: Reply pp. 1476-78
Arye L. Hillman and Heinrich W. Ursprung
Volume 84, issue 4 , 1994
The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis pp. 753-71
Robert Owen Mendelsohn , William D. Nordhaus and Daigee Shaw
Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania pp. 772-93
David E. Card and Alan B. Krueger
Measuring Permanent Responses to Capital-Gains Tax Changes in Panel Data pp. 794-809
Leonard E Burman and William C Randolph
Is the Glass-Steagall Act Justified? A Study of the U.S. Experience with Universal Banking before 1933 pp. 810-32
Randall S Kroszner and Raghuram G. Rajan
Protection for Sale pp. 833-50
Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman
North-South Trade and the Global Environment pp. 851-74
Graciela Chichilnisky
Flexible Manufacturing and Market Structure pp. 875-88
B. Curtis Eaton and Nicolas Schmitt
The Intensity and Timing of Investment: The Case of Land pp. 889-904
Dennis R. Capozza and Yuming Li
Aggregation and Simple Dynamics pp. 905-18
Arthur Lewbel
The Existence of Pareto-Superior Price Limits pp. 919-32
Laura E Kodres and O'Brien, Daniel P
Limited Market Participation and Volatility of Asset Prices pp. 933-55
Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale
A Simple Model of Educational Standards pp. 956-71
Robert M Costrell
The Firm as an Incentive System pp. 972-91
Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom
Jumping the Gun: Imperfections and Institutions Related to the Timing of Market Transactions pp. 992-1044
Alvin E. Roth and Xiaolin Xing
Labor-Market Dynamics When Unemployment is a Worker Discipline Device pp. 1045-59
Miles Spencer Kimball
Financial Market Imperfections, Firm Leverage, and the Cyclicality of Employment pp. 1060-74
Steven A. Sharpe
Customer- and Supplier-Driven Externalities pp. 1075-84
Eric J. Bartelsman , Ricardo J. Caballero and Richard K. Lyons
Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation pp. 1085-89
Lans Bovenberg and Ruud Aloysius de Mooij
An Empirical Test of the Infant Industry Argument: Comment pp. 1090-95
Ann E. Harrison
An Empirical Test of the Infant Industry Argument: Reply pp. 1096
Anne O Krueger and Baran Tuncer
The Behavior of U.S. Tariff Rates: Comment pp. 1097-1103
Perry Sadorsky
Examining Risk Preferences under High Monetary Incentives: Comment pp. 1104
Guido Ortona
Examining Risk Preferences under High Monetary Incentives: Reply pp. 1105-06
Steven J Kachelmeier and Mohamed Shehata
A Note on Competitive Investment under Uncertainty: Comment pp. 1107-12
Plutarchos Sakellaris
Volume 84, issue 3 , 1994
Economic Performance through Time pp. 359-68
Douglass C. North
Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy pp. 369-95
Robert William Fogel
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction pp. 396-418
Gary S. Becker , Michael Grossman and Kevin M. Murphy
Rational Choice under an Imperfect Ability to Choose pp. 419-40
André Jean-Louis de Palma , Gordon M. Myers and Yorgos Yanni Papageorgiou
Comparing Equilibria pp. 441-59
Paul Milgrom and John Roberts
Evolution of Time Preference by Natural Selection pp. 460-81
Alan R Rogers
Systematic Errors and the Theory of Natural Selection pp. 482-97
Michael Waldman
Coordination Economies, Advertising, and Search Behavior in Retail Markets pp. 498-517
Kyle Bagwell and Garey Ramey
Information Aggregation through Costly Political Action pp. 518-30
Susanne Lohmann
The Dynamics of Business Ethics and Economic Activity pp. 531-47
Thomas H. Noe and Michael J Rebello
Business as Usual, Market Crashes, and Wisdom after the Fact pp. 548-65
Andrew Caplin and John Leahy
Strategic Buyers and Exclusionary Contracts pp. 566-84
Robert Innes and Richard J Sexton
Equilibrium in Auctions with Entry pp. 585-99
Dan Levin and James L. Smith
Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? pp. 600-621
Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits pp. 622-41
Jonathan Gruber
The Loser's Curse pp. 642-52
Charles A. Holt and Roger Sherman
A Note on Sequential Auctions pp. 653-57
Dan Bernhardt and David Scoones
The Nature of Salience: An Experimental Investigation of Pure Coordination Games pp. 658-73
Judith Mehta , Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden
An Analysis of the Correlates of Discrimination Facing Young Hispanic Job-Seekers pp. 674-83
Genevieve M Kenney and Douglas A Wissoker
Highway Safety, Economic Behavior, and Driving Environment pp. 684-93
Theodore E Keeler
Workers as Creditors: Performance Bonds and Efficiency Wages pp. 694-704
Joseph A Ritter and Lowell J Taylor
Production, Appropriation, and Land Reform pp. 705-12
Herschel . Grossman
The Empirical Nature of Taylor-Series Approximations to Expected Utility pp. 713-19
Walter Hlawitschka
New Evidence on the Relation between Inflation and Price Dispersion pp. 720-31
Marshall Reinsdorf
Sources of Variation in Real Tariff Rates: The United States, 1900-1940 pp. 732-43
Mario John Crucini
Volume 84, issue 2 , 1994
Methodological Individualism and Social Knowledge pp. 1-9
Kenneth J. Arrow
Time-Series Evidence on the pp. 10-16
George Borjas and Valerie Ann Ramey
Regional Labor Markets and the Determinants of Wage Inequality pp. 17-22
Robert H. Topel
Rising Wage Inequality and the U.S. Gender Gap pp. 23-28
Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn
Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Wage Differentials pp. 29-33
David E. Card and Thomas Lemieux
The Dynamics of Poverty Spells: Updating Bane and Ellwood pp. 34-37
Ann Huff Stevens
Welfare Dependence: Concepts, Measures, and Trends pp. 38-42
Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt
Has the Decline in Benefits Shortened Welfare Spells? pp. 43-48
Hilary Williamson Hoynes and Thomas MaCurdy
Short-Term Recidivism among Public-Assistance Recipients pp. 49-53
Rebecca M. Blank and Patricia Ruggles
Low-Wage Employment Subsidies versus the Welfare State pp. 54-58
Edmund S. Phelps
Wage Distribution and Unemployment: The French Experience pp. 59-64
Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Converting Unemployment Benefits into Employment Subsidies pp. 65-70
Dennis Snower
The Welfare State and the Employment Problem pp. 71-75
Assar Lindbeck
Curing Child Poverty in the United States pp. 76-80
Barbara R Bergmann
The Child-Support Revolution pp. 81-85
Irwin Garfinkel
Children as Public Goods pp. 86-90
Nancy Folbre
The Economic Status of African-American Women: Special Session in Honor of Phyllis A. Wallace: Introduction pp. 91-92
Bernard E Anderson
Tilting against the Wind: Reflections on the Life and Work of Phyllis Ann Wallace pp. 93-97
Julianne Malveaux
Litigation of Employment Discrimination under Title VII: The Case of African-American Women pp. 98-102
Charles L Betsey
The Reliance of African-American Women on Government and Third-Sector Employment pp. 103-07
Lynn C Burbridge
Changes in Wage-and-Salary Returns to Skill and the Recent Rise in Female Self-Employment pp. 108-13
Theresa J Devine
A Child-Support Assurance Program: How Much Will It Reduce Child Poverty, and at What Cost? pp. 114-19
Elaine Sorensen and Sandra Clark
Housework, Wages, and the Division of Housework Time for Employed Spouses pp. 120-25
Joni Hersch and Leslie Sundt Stratton
I, Thou, and Them: Capabilities, Altruism, and Norms in the Economics of Marriage pp. 126-31
Julie Nelson
Noncooperative Bargaining Models of Marriage pp. 132-37
Shelly J Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak
The Creation of Domestic Currencies pp. 138-42
Viviana A Zelizer
Rethinking Economics through a Feminist Lens pp. 143-47
Myra H Strober
For Better or Worse: The Roles of Power in Models of Distribution within Marriage pp. 148-52
Robert A. Pollak
Feminist Thought and Economics: Or, What Do the Visigoths Know? pp. 153-58
Diana L Strassmann
When Can Government Subsidize Research Joint Ventures? Politics, Economics, and Limits to Technology Policy pp. 159-63
Linda Cohen
The Political Economy of Insider-Trading Laws pp. 164-68
Carla Tighe and Ron Michener
Does Electoral Uncertainty Cause Economic Fluctuations? pp. 169-73
Michelle R Garfinkel and Amihai Glazer
Expanding the Life-Cycle Model: Precautionary Saving and Public Policy pp. 174-79
Robert Glenn Hubbard , Jonathan Skinner and Stephen P. Zeldes
Targeted Retirement Saving and the Net Worth of Elderly Americans pp. 180-85
James Poterba , Steven Venti and David Wise
Psychology and Savings Policies pp. 186-92
Richard H. Thaler
Achievement Differences on Multiple-Choice and Essay Tests in Economics pp. 193-96
William B Walstad and William Edward Becker
Graphs and Learning in Principles of Economics pp. 197-200
Elchanan Cohn and Sharon Cohn
The Lake Wobegon Effect in Student Self-Reported Data pp. 201-05
Nan L Maxwell and Jane S Lopus
Does More Calculus Improve Student Learning in Intermediate Micro and Macro Economic Theory? pp. 206-10
J S Butler , T Aldrich Finegan and John J. Siegfried
Poverty, Incentives, and Development pp. 211-15
Abhijit V Banerjee and Andrew F. Newman
Poverty and Illness in Low-Income Rural Areas pp. 216-20
Andrew Foster
Poverty and Vulnerability pp. 221-25
Jonathan Morduch
Choosing a Welfare Indicator pp. 226-31
Sudhir Anand and Christopher Harris
Human Development: Means and Ends pp. 232-37
Paul Streeten
Human Development: A New Paradigm or Reinvention of the Wheel? pp. 238-43
T. N. Srinivasan
Poverty, Human Development, and Growth: An Emerging Consensus? pp. 244-49
Harsha Aturupane , Paul William Glewwe and Paul Isenman
The Interaction of Population Growth and Environmental Quality pp. 250-54
Maureen L. Cropper and Charles Griffiths
Human Capital, Family Planning, and Their Effects on Population Growth pp. 255-60
T. Paul Schultz
Population, Poverty, and Policies pp. 261-65
Charles Peter Timmer
Chinese Institutional Innovation and Privatization from Below pp. 266-70
Barry Naughton
Chinese Industrial Reform: Accomplishments, Prospects, and Implications pp. 271-75
Thomas George Rawski
Social Security in Present-Day China and Its Reform pp. 276-80
Athar Hussain
Chinese Rural Poverty: Marginalized or Dispersed? pp. 281-84
Carl Riskin
On Economic Reform, Poverty, and Nutrition in Africa pp. 285-90
David Ezra Sahn
Economic Reform and Social Welfare: The Case of Nutrition in Sri Lanka pp. 291-96
S R Osmani
Poverty, Food Consumption, and Nutrition during the Transition to the Market Economy in Eastern Europe pp. 297-302
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
The Great Irish Famine and Population: The Long View pp. 303-08
Timothy W. Guinnane
The Economic Impact of the Famine in the Short and Long Run pp. 309-13
O'Rourke, Kevin H.
Invisible-Hand Explanations pp. 314-18
Robert Nozick
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand pp. 319-22
Emma Rothschild
Visible and Invisible Governance pp. 323-26
Oliver E. Williamson
Better than Rational: Evolutionary Psychology and the Invisible Hand pp. 327-32
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
The Invisible Hand and Externalities pp. 333-37
Eric S. Maskin
Direct Democracy: Politico-economic Lessons from Swiss Experience pp. 338-42
Bruno S. Frey
The On-and-Off Connection between Political and Economic Progress pp. 343-48
Albert O. Hirschman
Capacities and Limits of Democracy pp. 349-52
Nicolaus Tideman
When Inequalities Diverge pp. 353-58
Michael C Wolfson
Measuring Social Welfare with and without Poverty Lines pp. 359-64
Martin Ravallion
Normative Measurement: Is Theory Relevant? pp. 365-70
James E. Foster
International Comparisons of Poverty pp. 371-74
McKinley L. Blackburn
Bosses of Different Stripes: A Cross-National Perspective on Monitoring and Supervision pp. 375-79
David M Gordon
Supervision, Discretion, and Work Organization pp. 380-84
Paul Osterman
The Formulation of Rational Choice pp. 385-90
Amartya Sen
The Traveler's Dilemma: Paradoxes of Rationality in Game Theory pp. 391-95
Kaushik Basu
Preference, Belief, and Welfare pp. 396-400
Daniel Hausman and Michael McPherson
Rationality as Self-Interest versus Rationality as Present Aims pp. 401-05
Vivian Walsh
Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality pp. 406-11
W Brian Arthur
Complex Landscapes in Economic Geography pp. 412-16
Paul R. Krugman
Self-Organized Criticality and Economic Fluctuations pp. 417-21
Jose Alexandre Scheinkman and Michael Woodford
Trade-Off Theory pp. 422-26
Donald E Campbell and Jerry S Kelly
Social Diversity, Arbitrage, and Gains from Trade: A Unified Perspective on Resource Allocation pp. 427-34
Graciela Chichilnisky
Rights, Welfarism, and Social Choice pp. 435-39
Prasanta K Pattanaik and Kotaro Suzumura
Information and Intergroup Transfers pp. 440-47
Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson
Social-Choice Mediators pp. 448-53
Gilbert Laffond , Jean-François Laslier and Michel Le Breton
Can a Ranking of Opportunity Sets Attach an Intrinsic Importance to Freedom of Choice? pp. 454-58
Nicolas Gravel
Volume 84, issue 1 , 1994
Productivity, R&D, and the Data Constraint pp. 1-23
Zvi Griliches
Business-Cycle Durations and Postwar Stabilization of the U.S. Economy pp. 24-46
Mark W. Watson
Money and Growth: An Alternative Approach pp. 47-65
Peter N. Ireland
Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries pp. 66-83
Rolf Fare , Shawna Grosskopf , Mary Norris and Zhongyang Zhang
Dynamics of the Trade Balance and the Terms of Trade: The J-Curve? pp. 84-103
David Backus , Patrick Kehoe and Finn E. Kydland
Barter and Monetary Exchange under Private Information pp. 104-23
Steve Williamson and Randall Wright
Unemployment and Vacancies with Sectoral Shifts pp. 124-44
Arthur Hosios
A Theory of Shortage in Socialist Economies Based on the "Soft Budget Constraint." pp. 145-56
Yingyi Qian
New Product Varieties and the Measurement of International Prices pp. 157-77
Robert C. Feenstra
Equal Division, Efficiency, and the Sovereign Supply of Labor pp. 178-89
Laurence Kranich
Expropriation and Inventions: Appropriable Rents in the Absence of Property Rights pp. 190-209
James J. Anton and Dennis A Yao
Opportunism in Multilateral Vertical Contracting: Nondiscrimination, Exclusivity, and Uniformity pp. 210-30
Randolph Preston McAfee and Marius Schwartz
The Effect of Taxes on Labor Supply in the Underground Economy pp. 231-54
Thomas Lemieux , Bernard Fortin and Pierre Frechette
Resolving Differences in Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept pp. 255-70
Jason Shogren , Seung Y. Shin , Dermot James Hayes and James B. Kliebenstein
Was the Crash of 1929 Expected? pp. 271-81
Peter Rappoport and Eugene Nelson White
Credible Disinflation with Staggered Price-Setting pp. 282-89
Laurence Ball
On Inflation and Output with Costly Price Changes: A Simple Unifying Result pp. 290-97
Roland J. Benabou and Jerzy D. Konieczny
Cointegration, Aggregate Consumption, and the Demand for Imports: A Structural Econometric Investigation pp. 298-308
Richard H. Clarida
The Debt Burden and Debt Maturity pp. 309-19
Alessandro Missale and Olivier Blanchard
Debt Maturity and the Deadweight Cost of Leverage: Optimally Financing Banking Firms pp. 320-31
Mark Jeffrey Flannery
International Comparisons of Living Standards and Tastes: A Revealed-Preference Analysis pp. 332-41
Steve Dowrick and John C. Quiggin
The Misperception of Walras pp. 342-52
Beat Bürgenmeier
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? pp. 353-58
Kevin Lang